Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - FTC or Secondment (Essex) Wickford, England
Job description
Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - Full-time (37.5hrs p/week) - FTC or Secondment
This post is available as a Fixed-Term Contract or Secondment up to 30th April 2024 to cover maternity leave.
An excellent opportunity has arisen for clinical, counselling or forensic psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team at Brockfield House, a forensic inpatient unit providing low and medium secure services. This post is available as a Fixed-Term Contract or Secondment up to 30th April 2024 to cover maternity leave. The team provides effective clinical risk management and supports the recovery pathway for service users with forensic histories or significant risk profiles. The post-holder will take on the role of ward psychologist, providing psychological assessments as well as individual and group interventions to service users presenting with a range of complex risk behaviours and forensic needs.
The role sits within the wider Forensic Psychological Services Department which comprises clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists, trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists and psychology undergraduate placement students. EPUT's Secure Services operate across Essex, Bedfordshire and Luton: Edward House, a 20 bed Low Secure unit in Chelmsford; Wood Lea Clinic (a 10 bed low-secure unit for men with a learning disability; and, Robin Pinto Unit, a 18 bed Low Secure Unit in Luton. Video conferencing facilities between sites are also used to assist departmental communication.
BENEFITS AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
- Excellent Training and CPD opportunities for career development
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
As well as applicants from the UK, we encourage overseas candidates to apply for this role. We welcome diversity within our organisation. We can offer guidance for candidates coming from overseas about settling into working in the UK and we have a programme to provide a ‘buddy’ for you, i.e. a member of the Psychological Services Directorate who has also emigrated to join us at EPUT and can guide you through as you settle into your new home. We understand that, as an overseas candidate, you will have gone through excellent training in your country of origin and we encourage you to join us.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CLINICAL
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of inpatients on the forensic wards based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients and others involved in the client’s The post- holder will also be responsible for the safe use of any equipment used during assessments (e.g. test batteries).
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems and employing evidence based
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for people on the forensic unit; families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Please see full 'Job Description' and 'Person Specification' attachments for full details of the role.
